Aberrant Occupations

Sunday, December 4, 2011

An amazing night last Friday in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a great lecture and a great dinner conversation with Master Frank D.K. Ching. He showed his amazing drawings and the value of this powerful skill. We also talked about the book A Global History of Architecture with the Dean Monica Ponce de Leon and the students from N.O.M.A.S. I always learn something new and great from him. "Do not do Architecture just to make money; do Architecture in order to make a positive impact" --Frank D.K. Ching during the N.O.M.A.S. Dinner after the Lecture at Taubman College University of Michigan 12/02/11.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Back in the winter of 2006 a group of diverse intercity undergraduate architecture students came together to make a film about playing ball inside the studio. Yes we got in a lot of trouble but we made history at the UW STUDIO BALL was our last project together. Each one of us is in different parts of the world. Some of us came from Vietnam some from Japan, some are Gringos and some came from Colombia

Monday, April 18, 2011

Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?

By JAMES VLAHOS

Published: April 14, 2011

DR. LEVINE’S MAGIC UNDERWEAR resembled bicycle shorts, black and skintight, but with sensors mounted on the thighs and wires running to a fanny pack. The look was part Euro tourist, part cyborg. Twice a second, 24 hours a day, the magic underwear’s accelerometers and inclinometers would assess every movement I made, however small, and whether I was lying, walking, standing or sitting.